Description: Concepts and techniques for testing software and assuring its quality. Topics cover software testing at the unit, module, subsystem, and system levels, automatic and manual techniques for generating and validating test data, the testing process, static vs. dynamic analysis, functional testing, inspections, and reliability assessment.

Professor's note: The course will attempt to prepare students to test software in structured, organized ways. This course should provide practical knowledge of a variety of ways to test software an understanding of some of the tradeoffs between testing techniques and a feel for the practice of software testing and the research in software testing.

Prerequisite: SWE 619 and SWE Foundation material.

The course syllabus is on the instructor's website: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/classes/637/